Thursday, December 04, 2008

Bug Fixes in the Pipeline

A few things are in the works:

The X-Plane messaging system, which checks for updates, can hang up if DNS isn't available. I should have fixed this a lot sooner, but this will be addressed in a very small 9.22 patch, in the process of being built now.

9.22 will also include Robin's latest apt and nav data.

For Linux users: 9.22 should work with threaded OpenGL on newer distros - thanks to Jan for sending me the code snippet to fix this!

And on the iphone front: the next X-Plane iphone free update should improve memory use during DSF load. This in turn will hopefully address the application suddenly quitting on "loaded" iphones (that is, iphones with a lot of email accounts or other background tasks that use memory). Memory was temporarily spiking as we optimized the DSF during load. I am not sure when this will make it to the iTunes store.

I am looking at OpenAL on Linux, but this will have to wait for 930 and a longer beta program. 922 will also not have a FADEC - 922 is a quick bug fix patch, not a feature release!